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Talking Health

A film for the National Children’s Bureau where children and young people talk about what helps them to stay healthy, their own experiences of using health services and make suggestions about what the Government could do to help them live healthier lives.

Mappa Mundi

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a unique medieval treasure: a 700-year-old map with over 1000 drawings showing the limits of human knowledge and belief at the time.

This year, the sealed, glass cover was opened for just a few days for a team from Factum Arte to scan the map with lasers and create an incredibly accurate 3D record.

This film for Factum Arte and Hereford Cathedral shows and explains the process.

We Don’t Cry

A film for the IOM, shot and directed by Luke Tchalenko that shows the journey of Ma Lay Lay and her two young children from refugee camps in Northern Thailand to start a new life in the States.

Burke + Norfolk

A film for the Tate Modern gallery, directed by Luke Tchalenko, edited by Jeremy Brettingham, with cinematography by Antonio Olmos.

In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs re-imagine or respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict.

This film looks at Norfolk’s work and practice in Afghanistan and examines the relationship between the two photographers.

The film was part of an exhibition this year of the same name at at the Tate Modern. You can also see the film on the Tate Channel.

The Writer and the Flautist (Trailer)

A trailer for a short documentary by Luke and John Tchalenko featuring human-rights lawyer and popular writer, Raja Shehadeh (Orwell Prize, 2008). The idyllic West Bank landscape is contrasted with the devastating Arab-Israeli ideological divide. A remarkable player of the ancient Nye flute invokes the vanishing landscape as a Bedouin tribe struggles for existence.

The Writer and the Flautist premiered at the South Bank Literary festival in London and was recently shown at The Filmhouse in Edinburgh as part of the Beyond Borders Festival.

Cruel and Quite Usual

A film for Al Jazeera English by Simon Ostrovskiy, with cinematography by Luke Tchalenko.

The former Soviet state of Uzbekistan has become an important ally for both the US and NATO; its border with Afghanistan providing an invaluable supply route for the West’s war on the Taliban.

But its government, led by Islam Karimov, the country’s president, has a dreadful human rights record. It is a country where political and religious expression is heavily restricted, and where security services allegedly use torture and murder indiscriminately.

Thousands of Uzbeks have fled abroad – a few to Europe or the US, the majority to neighbouring countries in Central Asia. Mostly practising Muslims, they seek sanctuary from the violence and a chance to live in peace.

Instead, many of them face arrest and deportation back to a country where brutal repression is an everyday occurrence.